Crime

Pike is under guard in critical condition after surviving her 'torturous' execution attempt

The 'Damsel of Death' had shared letters with childhood friend Dawn Botkins for several years before she died via lethal injection

Journalist and campaigner Charlie Webster reflects on why speaking out still costs survivors so much

Colleen Slemmer's killer, 50, survived two rounds of lethal injection on Wednesday (30 Sept) and has remained in hospital ever since

Kathy Hochul has said she will not allow the case 'to be swept under the rug' as she announced plans to change the state's consent laws

Serial sex offender Larry Nassar is among the names that have been wiped from Michigan’s public registry

He claimed he counted at least seven needles in Pike's left arm during her execution attempt

Pike is in critical condition and receiving ‘life-saving care’ at a hospital, her attorney confirmed

Christa Pike, who brutally murdered 19-year-old fellow Job Corps student Colleen Slemmer in 1995, survived two rounds of lethal injection

Pike remained alive and 'snoring' after she was administered two doses of a lethal drug

She claimed it caused her to 'breakdown'

She survived two lethal syringes of pentobarbital

A death penalty expert called it an unprecedented failure

The execution team administered two doses of pentobarbital to the 50-year-old on Wednesday (30 September), but she survived

Her execution was halted yesterday, before the Supreme Court ruled the lethal injection could go ahead

Her execution was delayed in the last hour - but is now due to go ahead

In the last two months, 11 women in their 20s and 30s have been murdered near South Africa's main city, Johannesburg

Christa Pike previously claimed she was 'at peace' with the prospect of dying, over three decades after she murdered Colleen Slemmer at 18

Pike was due to be executed via lethal injection today (30 September) at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville

Christa Pike was 18 when she killed 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer in 1995, alongside accomplices Tadaryl Shipp and Shadolla Peterson

One of them claimed to have seen McGregor's accuser in an altercation with her former partner, before the evidence was withdrawn

Tennessee Governor Bill Lee rejected Christa Pike's clemency petition on Monday (28 Sept), saying he would not intervene in the sentence

Lindsay Clancy stood accused of intentionally murdering her three children, while her team insisted she was battling postpartum depression

The state of Tennessee is set to execute the 50-year-old over a 1995 murder later today (30 September)